I got a survival job through an employment agency. I was hungry and didn't care. They were desperate for someone to fix a system that former employee left in the lurch so they didn't care either.

It sucked horribly. All my friends told me to leave. But looking back it was at the job that I learned skills and made contacts that helped me to move up a level later in life.

I can't advise you to get a job that sucks because that's crazy. But sometimes doing what has to be done for survival can have unintended good consequences. One reason that I learned so much on that job was that everyone knew that my boss was horrible so other senior staff went out of their way to help me.

The other thing that I'd recommend is being honest with yourself about your intentions, and hold onto that if the s-stuff begins to fly. I stuck at that job because I needed to eat, period.

Work is not focused on your personal space like therapy. Work is an exchange made with people who have something that we need. Get good at something useful. Useful stuff can be practical/ social/ or bloody minded obsessive as well as academic or technical.

Working is hard, so please take care of yourself!